Software Engineer-1
Coinbase
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Join the Money Movement team within the Developer product group and help build the infrastructure powering the future of global payments. CDP brings together payments, trading, wallets, and stablecoins through a single onboarding flow and self-service APIs. You'll design and build backend systems for stablecoin-based pay-ins, payouts, deposits, and withdrawals, enabling fast, secure, and scalable transfers that underpin how value moves across the Coinbase ecosystem and beyond.
What you'll do:
- Own key projects end-to-end as the Directly Responsible Individual, driving stablecoin-based money movement features from system design through production deployment with high accountability.
- Build backend systems, infrastructure, and internal/external APIs that enable businesses and partners to embed stablecoin-powered payments into their products.
- Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance to translate requirements into robust, scalable solutions that balance speed, security, and regulatory needs.
- Execute performance, scalability, and reliability improvements across distributed systems, identifying bottlenecks and driving fixes before they impact customers.
- Support the team's engineering quality through code reviews, architectural best practices, and contributing to patterns that raise the technical bar.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems, ideally in fintech, payments, or crypto.
- Proficiency in backend languages (e.g., Go, Java) and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), with hands-on experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
- Track record of serving as DRI for technical projects, driving end-to-end delivery from system design through production deployment.
- Experience integrating with or building on blockchain or crypto technologies such as stablecoins, on-chain payments, or smart contract platforms (e.g., Ethereum, Solana, Base).
- Demonstrated ability to write technical design documents and communicate architecture trade-offs to product and engineering stakeholders.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Job: P78197
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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